30 Jan 2019

Dateline Pacific evening edition for 30 January 2019

From , 4:06 pm on 30 January 2019

A repair vessel, the cable maintenance ship Reliance, has begun work on the severed Tonga undersea cable which had connected the country with the outside world via Fiji; doctors in Papua New Guinea have reacted angrily to the health minister's insistence that there's no crisis in the health system; police in Papua New Guinea's Milne Bay province are struggling to contain spiralling lawlessness and violent unrest linked to a criminal gang led by the notorious prison escapee, Tommy Baker; the Commonwealth has launched a series of schemes to help countries deal with the challenges they face in their oceans; the power company in the Northern Marianas is expected to fork out for a new generator for Rota, as the island experiences rolling blackouts this week.